Many commenters are too lost in their own egos to speak rationally about this issue. CS is not a "cool" major in colleges, and programming is not a cool profes

Many commenters are too lost in their own egos to speak rationally about this issue. CS is not a "cool" major in colleges, and programming is not a cool profession among tweens. Until there is a significant cultural shift, which I would bet will not happen any time soon, the labor pool will not be commoditized in the USA. On top of that, the skill cap for programming is substantially higher than it is in assembly line manufacturing. Programming may be more comparable to engineers who actually design the cars, but those jobs are not commoditized either.